Small Business Tips to help your Business
Welcome to Wayne’s small business tips to help your business.
These tips have been drawn from Wayne’s experience as a fully qualified Chartered Accountant for over 35 years including the last 23 years working with hundreds of startups, small and medium businesses as an Outsourced CFO and Business Advisor.
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National Sorry Day 2024
National Sorry Day 2024
Today, 26 May is National Sorry Day. It is a day to recognise the grief, suffering and loss suffered by the stolen generations and the mistreatment of Australia’s first nations peoples.

What is in the 2024-25 Federal budget for Business Owners
Wayne Wanders A Real CFO talking about how little there is in the 2024-25 Federal budget for Business Owners

The Ticking Time Bomb: How Small Issues Can Bite Your Business
The Ticking Time Bomb: How Small Issues Can Bite Your Business

Small business instant asset write-off reminder
If you are a business with annual turnover of less than $10m, don’t forget that the small business instant asset write-off of up to $20,000 per eligible asset finishes on 30 June 2024.

Sole Trader or Company
People often ask me whether they should operate as a sole trader or company – read on to learn my thoughts on this

ESIC – Tax incentives for early stage investors old
There is a special class of company, called Early Stage Innovation Company (ESIC), that can pass certain tax incentives onto their investors

2023 Startup Muster
The 2023 Startup Muster measures and publishes the progress, challenges and opportunities within the Australian startup ecosystem

Payday Super Submission
Here is my feedback around payday super and the “Securing Australians’ Superannuation Budget 2023-24 Consultation paper”

Unfair Contract legislation is changing from 10 November 2023
Did you know that from 10 November 2023, more of your customers may come under the unfair contract legislation.

Thinking of a 2023 Christmas shutdown for your business – then you need to read this
If you are thinking of a Christmas shutdown for your business in December 2023 / January 2024, you need to be aware of the rules around this

What can Sporting terms teach business
sporting teams can teach business about how to get the best outcome. It needs planning, practice, training and execution

Business Exits June 2023
Here is another example of the impact of product and labour constraints and interest rates on Australian Business Exits

Are you looking for the electric toothbrush of your business?
What’s an electric toothbrush got to do with my business you say? Let me explain

Temporary Full Expensing finishes 30 June 2023
One of the stimulus measures announced during Covid was temporary full expensing which will finish on 30 June 2023

Quarterly Business Exits Dec 2022
Quarterly business Exits show the impact of lockdowns, product and labour constraints and now interest rates on Australian Businsess

Changes are coming to the Professional Employees Award 2020
Changes coming in terms of the Professional Employees Award around ordinary hours of work and overtime payments.

The Budget and the Gender Pay Gap
Do the politicians mouth platitudes about the gender pay gap, but have no real intention of closing the Gender Pay Gap?

Budget October 2022-23 – A budget that forgot about small business
Budget October 2022-23 – A budget that forgot about small businessAs part of the 2022 Federal Election, the Labor Party promised a “Better deal for small business”. Sounds great but Labor’s policy document at the time was very light on detail, and in my view this...

1 October 2022 Pay Rate Changes
Don’t forget the 1 October 2022 Pay Rate changes for any of your staff on selected awards, they may be entitled to a pay rise

Struggling to Find Experienced staff
If you are struggling to find experienced staff, Cadel Evan’s EMC theory of how he selected his team members when he was professionally riding both mountain and road bikes may be able to help.
Right now, many business owners are struggling to find experienced staff to fill vacancies

What can sporting teams teach business 2022?
What can sporting teams teach business?Do you think that sporting clubs can teach business a trick or two? Well I do. And let me explain why. Let's have a look at the 4 footy teams lined up for the grand finals this week. You've had the Swans and Geelong in Melbourne...

The Christmas Shutdown may be changing
If you are thinking of a Christmas shutdown for your business in December 2022 / January 2023, you need to be aware of this.

June 2022 ABS GDP numbers
If you are a service business (as distinct from one selling physical products), there is a chart in today’s June quarter GDP numbers issued by the ABS that should start to put a smile on your face

2022 Jobs and Skills Summit
2022 Jobs and Skills Summit1.0 Introduction This week we will see a bunch of people get together at the 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit to discuss how to address the shortage of appropriate workers many businesses in the Australian economy are facing. This get...

Mistakes in your business are hurting your cash flow
Is your cash flow hurting because of mistakes in your sales / delivery processes that you don’t know about? Read on to learn more.
